Word: beefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Switches & Whistles. Though many in the 80-man Dewey press corps did not yet really like the candidate, they had to admire his streamlined press relations. The text of each night's speech was Mimeographed by the morning before; coffee and beef sandwiches were at hand in every press workroom along the way. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's motto was "Make it as easy as possible for them to get what they want...
...exploration work in the wilderness everything had to be flown in, from beef to bulldozers. At first, air freight cost Hollinger 73? a pound. By last April Jules Timmins had his own airlift operating from Seven Islands to the airstrip at Knob Lake. This season it carried 750 tons, at an average cost of 7? a pound...
...unbeaten, unscored-on footballers nervously pulled on their togs. A sign on the wall in Evanston's Dyche Stadium was meant to be reassuring: "You are as good as the next guy. [He] pulls his pants on one leg at a time, too." It was small comfort: the beef-trusters (up to 250 Ibs.) in the Minnesota dressing room wore much bigger pants...
After declining steadily for a week, livestock prices hit their lowest point in more than four months. The cave-in loosened the prop under retail prices. Most Eastern food chains promptly slashed as much as 19% off some pork prices, 35% off beef. Stores in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and points west followed suit, in some cases with even bigger slashes. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index dropped to its lowest point in 14 months...
...Beef and pork prices in the Chicago and Minneapolis markets reached new highs this week as midwestern live-stock rates showed no signs of a cut-back...